This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Optimizations on long long multiply/divide on PowerPC32 don't work

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:03:09AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> These days libgcc has a _lot_ of "non-architecture" stuff.

But it's still all "compiler support" routines.

> Read my email again. Read the part about why we do not want to have the
> slow crap routines, when most likely the user really _wanted_ a unsigned
> shift in the first place.

As stated, that sounds reasonable.  Just so long as it's not
automatically considered a compiler bug that you run in to
these things from time to time.


r~
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]